{"id":161409,"date":"2026-02-19T17:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T17:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/161409\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T17:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T17:09:08","slug":"desantis-florida-cabinet-weigh-land-transfer-for-tampa-bay-rays-proposed-tampa-ballpark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/161409\/","title":{"rendered":"DeSantis, Florida cabinet weigh land transfer for Tampa Bay Rays\u2019 proposed Tampa ballpark"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"RaysFlorida Gov. Ron DeSantis and the state cabinet will \u201cconsider conveying 22 acres of nonconservation land to Hillsborough College\u201d for a Rays ballpark. Rays <\/p>\n

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and the state cabinet will \u201cconsider conveying 22 acres of nonconservation land to Hillsborough College\u201d for a Rays ballpark, according to Nina Moske of the TAMPA BAY TIMES. DeSantis has previously said that he \u201csupports the Rays\u2019 quest<\/a>\u201d\u202fto build a ballpark at the 113-acre Dale Mabry campus of Hillsborough College<\/a>. An agenda item released this week for a meeting next Tuesday said that construction on the ballpark and the surrounding development \u201cmust exist within five years of the transfer,\u201d otherwise the state \u201ccould take back the land.\u201d The Rays said that they hope to have a ballpark \u201cready by April 2029.\u201d The item needs three votes to pass. Team owners have said that they \u201cplan to pay for\u202f50% of the stadium cost\u202f– which could reportedly rise\u201d to\u202f$2.3B\u202f– as well as \u201cfuture repairs and renovations and any construction cost overruns.\u201d For the rest, they are \u201clooking to various city and county public funding sources\u201d (TAMPA BAY TIMES, 2\/18<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and the state cabinet will \u201cconsider conveying 22 acres of nonconservation land to Hillsborough…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[3816,3817,135,137,136],"class_list":["post-161409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}